Udana does the trick as Wayamba crush Stags
Wayamba could only score 144 for six but it proved enough as Udana and Ajantha Mendis sent the New Zealand team plunging to 16 for five. They were all out for 70 in 15.3 overs.
Stags were off to a disastrous start as Mendis trapped Stags captain Jamie How, the tournament’s leading run-scorer, leg-before. Udana, 22, who played for Sri Lanka in the 2009 World Twenty20 in England, deceived Brad Patton with a slower ball and then had Mathew Sinclair and George Worker off consecutive deliveries to complete the hat-trick.
He finished with three for 22 and Mendis grabbed three for 14, while left-arm spinner Rangana Herath had the most economical figures of the tournament, two for seven off four overs.
“We really wanted the win today,” said Wayamba captain Jehan Mubarak.
Meanwhile, the Stags captain How said, “It was a disastrous batting performance. We’ve learned some pretty good lessons and hopefully we’ll be back a lot stronger.”
The win at St George’s Park enabled Wayamba to climb off the bottom of the Group A table after both teams lost their first three matches.
Kumble, Kohli take Bangalore to last-four
Anil Kumble and Virat Kohli took the Royal Challengers Bangalore to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament with a six-wicket win over the Highveld Lions.
Bangalore restricted the Lions to 159 for six and reached the target with six balls to spare in a match which was effectively a quarter-final, with the winners assured of joining Group B winners, South Australian Redbacks, in the last-four.
At the Wanders in Johannesburg, Bangalore captain Kumble, 39, produced a superb spell of one for 13 in four overs, putting a brake on what had been a fast Lions scoring rate and dismissing Lions danger man Alviro Petersen.
Kohli, 21, made an audacious 49 not out off 29 balls to see the Indian Premier League team home on net run rate after they finished tied on points with the Lions and Mumbai Indians.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2010.
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